Bad Hair Day

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Bad Hair Day

Postby Alex on Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:39 pm

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Thanks for looking,

Alex
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Postby Steffen on Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:19 am

I wonder why you called the series "bad hair day"... I like the wild, slightly unkempt look. If anything, the unironed shirt would be more objectionable (not to me, though) ;)

Compositionally, I like #3 best, followed by #1 and then #2 (number one would have been number one if the elbow had been left uncut). Not knowing much (anything really) of portrait shooting my biggest gripe would be the excessive sharpening. The model seems to fuse with the background in #2, especially along the arms. This flattens the image and destroys the sense of depth. I do realise that downscaling and JPEG compression can bring about that effect sometimes...

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Postby Alex on Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:49 am

Thanks for the in-depth critique, Steffen.

I must say that the jpegs I saved originally did not have that 'over-sharpened' look. However, to comply with the forum's 150K per image rule, I had to save them at a much higher compression that I would normally and I think that introduced artifacts, etc.

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